In the light of our current PerfectCity poll it is time to focus on another factor. When we are talking about “Social security” we mean protection against socially recognized conditions, including poverty, old age, disability, unemployment and others – including public insurances, pensions and child allowances.
To support this issue we would like to present an interesting report from ISSA to you. The ISSA, International Social Security Association, is an international organization bringing together government departments, social security administrations and agencies.
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General @ 05 Jun 2008 12:27 pm by Robert Schmidl
German Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (BBR) has observed the phenomenon of young and well-educated woman leaving their home regions (mainly rural regions) in East Germany in a report called “Women – men – spaces”.
The political change in Eastern Germany and in Eastern Europe 16 years ago was the beginning of dramatic social and economic transformations with impacts of demographic change in Eastern Germany. There has been a significant change in the population structure. The biggest labour migrant group included those between 18 and 35 years old, most of them women, and many well-educated. Besides the fact of a generally sinking birth rate in Germany as a whole (with the most severe decline experienced in the regions of the former GDR), labour migration impacts have narrowed the base of regional population pyramids - especially rural areas and in smaller towns. Not only are there greater numbers of older people than younger people but also fewer children today mean even fewer in the future. As a consequence, the population of eastern Germany is aging rapidly and cities are shrinking.
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Priyanka, what is your favourite city?
Bangalore, India. MG Road/ Brigade Road is my favourite spot in this city. The diversity the place boasts in terms of entertainment, sprirituality, books and liveliness is what attracts me towards it.
What is your vision of a perfect city 2050?
A place to MEET people,a place to MIX with people,a place to RELAX and a place which represents diversity with Unity at its best (more…)
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General @ 30 Nov 2006 07:04 pm by Benjamin Hartmann
Our cities are growing. The UN estimates that up to 61 percent of the world’s population will life in cities by 2030 – pushing up urban population from three billion today to a total of five billion. By 2015, approximately 350 million people will live in megacities. As a consequence of this accelerated urbanization, the transformation of cultivated land and nature into urban landscapes continues and jeopardizes the resources for future generations. Keyword: sustainability! Solution: Ecocity? (more…)
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